A mixed epigenetic and genetic and mixed de novo and inherited model for autism

Understanding Autism: From Basic Neuroscience to Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 95-111

  Beaudet, Arthur L ^a   Zoghbi, Huda Y ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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